1900 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 800 m (men)
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sport | athletics |
discipline | 800 meter run |
gender | Men |
place | Croix Catelan |
Attendees | 18 athletes from 7 countries |
Competition phase | 14./16. July 1900 |
Medalist | |
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gold | Alfred Tysoe ( GBR ) |
silver | John Cregan ( USA ) |
bronze | David Hall ( USA ) |
The 800-meter race of the men at the Olympics in Paris in 1900 was on 14 and 16 July 1900 in Croix Catelan decided. The British Alfred Tysoe became Olympic champion . He won ahead of the two Americans John Cregan - silver - and David Hall - bronze.
Records
The unofficial world record was set in a race over 880 yards , which corresponds to 804.672 meters.
World record | 1: 53.4 min | United States | Charles Kilpatrick | New York ( USA ), September 21, 1895 |
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Olympic record | 2: 10.0 min | Australia | Edwin Flack | Advance from Athens ( Greece ), April 6, 1896 |
The following records were broken or set at these Olympic Games over 800 meters :
OR | 1: 59.0 min | United States | David Hall | 1st preliminary, July 14th |
Results
Prelims
July 14, 1900
There were three preliminary runs, from each of which two runners reached the final - highlighted in color.
Forward 1
space | Surname | country | Time (min) | |
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1 | David Hall | United States | 1: 59.0 | OR |
2 | Alfred Tysoe | GBR | 1: 59.2 | estimated |
3 | Howard Hayes | United States | unknown | |
4th | Maurice Salomez | France | ||
5 | Christian Christensen | Denmark | ||
? | Walter Drumheller | United States | ||
Alex Grant | United States |
Tysoe was three yards behind the winner of the heat, Hayes followed, another six yards behind. In the case of Drumheller and Grant, it is not known whether they reached the finish and in what order they arrived. Grant was also actually Canadian but started in the USA team because he studied there.
In zur Megede only the first four are listed.
Forward 2
space | Surname | country | Time (min) |
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1 | Henry Deloge | France | 2: 00.6 |
2 | Zoltán Speidl | Hungary | unknown |
3 | Justus Scrafford | United States | unknown |
? | Edward Bushnell | United States | |
Emilio Banfi | Italy | ||
Harrison Smith | United States |
Deloge's lead over his two pursuers is given as three and eight yards, respectively. It is not known of the last three runners whether and in what order they reached the finish.
In the case of the Megede , the information up to third place is consistent, the German Albert Werkmüller is in fourth place . No other participants are named in this source.
Forward 3
space | Surname | country | Time (min) | |
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1 | John Cregan | United States | 2: 03.0 | |
2 | John Bray | United States | 2: 03.4 | estimated |
3 | Harvey Lord | United States | unknown | |
? | Edward Mechling | United States | ||
Ondřej Pukl | Bohemia |
Cregan's lead over his two pursuers is given as six and ten yards, respectively. It is not known of the last two runners whether and in which order they reached the finish.
At the Megede , the information provided by the first two runners is consistent; Edward Mechling is ranked third in this source. No other participants are named at zur Megede .
final
July 16, 1900
space | Surname | country | Time (min) | |
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1 | Alfred Tysoe | GBR | 2: 01.2 | |
2 | John Cregan | United States | 2: 03.0 | estimated |
3 | David Hall | United States | unknown | |
4th | Henry Deloge | France | ||
5 | Zoltán Speidl | Hungary | ||
6th | John Bray | United States |
Particularly favored was the Briton Alfred Tysoe, who had run under two minutes several times during the Olympic year. His two fiercest competitors were the American John Cregan, who had also undercut the two-minute mark this season, and the French Henry Deloge, who, as a participant from the organizing club, was hoping for a good placement.
Deloge led the field for the first half of the route, with a leisurely pace of 1:05 minutes for the first 400 meters. The reason for the slow start was the participation of some runners in the 1500 meter final the day before. On lap two Tysoe and Cregan accelerated, Tysoe continued to pull away and won clearly. Cregan and Hall followed the Olympic champion by three and eight yards respectively. Hall also finally defeated the French and secured the bronze medal. Some sources even speak of Deloge's weakness and fall. The second lap was run much faster in 56 seconds.
The Dane Christian Christensen is named as the seventh finalist on the IOC side .
Web links
- SportsReference, Athletics at the 1900 Paris Summer Games: Men's 800 meters , English, accessed July 19, 2018
- Olympic Games Paris 1900, Athletics, 800m men , IOC website on athletics at the 1900 Olympic Games at olympic.org, English, accessed on 19 July 2018
literature
- Volker Kluge , Olympic Summer Games - The Chronicle I, Berlin 1997 ( ISBN 3-328-00715-6 )
- Ekkehard zur Megede , The history of Olympic athletics, Volume 1: 1896–1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896–1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 32
- ↑ read, for example, at Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896–1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 31